The most popular game of the past year is Fortnite. With the support of my team of researchers at the Yoroi/Cybaze ZLab, I’m going to show how it’s easy to find a malicious file when unwise users search for the latest film, a copy of a popular video game or a copy of a piece of commercial software. Downloaded material often includes malicious code that could deliver malware or allow crooks to carry out other dangerous activities. However, there are many dangers for unskilled users, and it is quite easy to get in trouble. Torrent categoriesĪs previously described, by using the BitTorrent network it’s possible to download every type of media content. Other popular famous torrent search engines are 1337x, Rarbg and LimeTorrents. Each user visits 5.2 pages on average, indicating the fact that a single person searches about five torrents per day. The site has over 2.8 million visitors, with 2.7 million unique visitors. However, The Pirate Bay is still alive today.įigure 2: Alexa ranking of The Pirate Bayīy analyzing the statistics reported by Alexa, it’s easy to determine the volume of traffic associated with the website. The site has been seized and reopened many times over the years due to legal disputes with private firms and the Swedish government. The Pirate Bay is historically the most famous and important torrent search engine, due to its history and all the legal issues it faced in the last decade. Everyone who wants to download media from the BitTorrent infrastructure has to search for the desired content using specialty search engines, the most popular one being The Pirate Bay:įigure 1: Example of torrent search engine They often get infected with malicious code hidden behind a torrent.īefore starting with the analysis of the content that could be downloaded by users, let’s introduce the top BitTorrent search engines.
Unfortunately, the freedom and the ease of downloading desired content could pose serious risks for unaware users. Through BitTorrent, it is possible to download every type of files: movies, TV shows, songs, software and games. Today, BitTorrent is the most common technology to share digital materials in spite of any type of limitation imposed by the copyright regulations. The downloaders upload to each other, making it possible for the file source to support very large numbers of downloaders with only a modest increase in its load. Its advantage over plain HTTP is that it allows multiple simultaneous downloads of the same resource. It identifies content by URL and is designed to integrate persistently with the Web. BitTorrent is a protocol for distributing files.
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